“Dad, there’s no seat belt back here.”
“Then wrap the vacuum hose around your waist, you pussy.”
Clayton-Tucker-types would have NEVER made it through the 70s.
“You think tail gunners in WWII worried about seatbelts? Shut up, hand me those Pall Malls and let’s go”.
Actually, more like “”Here take the seatbelt from up front because we cut them out.”
No one in the 70s was asking about seat belts. It was all “I call way back!”. The “way back” was the place to be on long car rides. Only the suckers sat in the back seat. Lived back there because you could get away with murder and dad’s arm couldn’t reach us! It was worth the risk.
My dad had a Geo Metro with the back seat taken out and he let my little sister ride up front because ‘she had more life to live’. She was only two years younger than me. LOL.
GEN X, the last tough generation.